i find these locations uncommon. is there an easy way to change them to a more "standard" (if such exists)?

I'm using syslog-ng personally, but I'm sure metalog has some way of filtering/moving different facilities/importance into several files. consult it's docs

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yeah, su takes some time. i can switch console sometimes and display a long textfile on annother console until the prompt in the xterm is ready. it probably has to do domething with pam and xauthority. i never underdtood what that means.

you can start with comparing /etc/pam.d/su with /etc/pam.d/login (maybe something else) and trying to temporarily comment-out the differences in su to see what feature is causing troubles.

the first one took the most time, teh second only a notably one second.

how can i know what they are for and that my system still works as expectedwith those two lines removed? as i said, the su command worked right yesterday and i didnt change on the system. something else must be the reason._________________gentoo linux - amd duron stalebred 1600 - elsa gladiac 311 (nvidia) - elitegroup k7s5a (sis, lan) - 256mb ram - wintv pci fm - airstar2 dvb-t pci - ide cdwriter - hp psc 1110

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i commented out two lines. both produce errors. teh first one produces a delay of two seconds, the second one produces a delay of ~30 seconds. the conf file looks ok. i added two times a seemingly missing "" after an = though that didnt change anything. maybe the "" were not needed at all to indicate an empty string. its just annoterh configuration script that sets some variables. expecially the xauthority variable and the display variable are the ones that appeared in the logfile. could there be something with the devices not right? i have no idea._________________gentoo linux - amd duron stalebred 1600 - elsa gladiac 311 (nvidia) - elitegroup k7s5a (sis, lan) - 256mb ram - wintv pci fm - airstar2 dvb-t pci - ide cdwriter - hp psc 1110

i commented out two lines. both produce errors. teh first one produces a delay of two seconds, the second one produces a delay of ~30 seconds.

so pam_env delays for about 2 secs and pam_xauth for half a minute?

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the conf file looks ok. i added two times a seemingly missing "" after an = though that didnt change anything. maybe the "" were not needed at all to indicate an empty string. its just annoterh configuration script that sets some variables. expecially the xauthority variable and the display variable are the ones that appeared in the logfile. could there be something with the devices not right? i have no idea.

# First, some special variables
#
# Set the REMOTEHOST variable for any hosts that are remote, default
# to "localhost" rather than not being set at all
# Note: Rather set default to "", as DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 do not work
# here at least.
REMOTEHOST DEFAULT= OVERRIDE=@{PAM_RHOST}
#
# Set the DISPLAY variable if it seems reasonable
DISPLAY DEFAULT=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 OVERRIDE=${DISPLAY}
#
# Set the XAUTHORITY variable if pam_xauth is used
XAUTHORITY DEFAULT= OVERRIDE=@{XAUTHORITY}